Hi,
I have an M2 MacBook Air. Ever since I upgraded to OSX Ventura 13.5, the computer insists on re-starting about once an hour. The only way to stop this behaviour is to have an application open that tends to prevent restarts, e.g. Terminal. This is rather silly, and I see no obvious reason for it. The system and the apps all seem up-to-date. Does anyone know other possible reasons for this, and likely fixes?
Many thanks.
MacBook Air, macOS 13.5
When it restarts, the normal cause is a kernel panic cause by third-party kernel extensions. While you have some third-party kernel extensions installed, the EtreCheck report does not indicate you have had kernel panics.
There is an option to Logout after a period of inactivity, but not to Restart.
Any chance someone is messing with you and enabled a restart schedule? Run this command in Terminal:
pmset -g sched
You might see a couple that get set by Apple for some purpose, but you are looking for ones that restart on some time period.
Well, I am a scientist and need VPN clients to connect to High Performance Clusters, but let's stay on topic.
I removed VPNs, antivirus and bloatware. The problem of restarts persists.
I updated to Sonoma. Same problem. I think I will just keep the Terminal open at all times to prevent the restart...
Regular restarts after installing Ventura